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The Alchemy Learning Center combines Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy's life’s work of over 25 years experience studying, practicing, and teaching Alchemy, the Five Elements, and the Nine Palaces all over the world. As co-hosts of the Inspired Action Podcast and owners of the Alchemy Learning Center and Alchemy Healing Center, they bring you in this newsletter engaging and comprehensive writings about these and other Daoist and Chinese Medicine concepts.
Hello Reader, Solstice is a powerful time for accessing your inner guidance. Summer is the Fire season—the season of the Heart and the Shen/spirit, your guide. It's not the season for turning inward (that's Winter!). It is the season for blooming—being seen and also seeing clearly. What you are becoming? What is your spirit is asking of you? Where is your life actually pointing? The mid-summer heat can also be agitating to the Spirit/Shen, which lives in the Heart. When it's unsettled, it...
June 25, 2026 ☯️ Just a friendly reminder that From Seeker to Alchemist: Radical Transformation through the Nine Stages of Alchemy is this Saturday, June 27th — and there's still time to sign up and join us. This Saturday, we are teaching a deep dive into all of the Nine stages. The whole map, so you can see, feel, and discover exactly where you are — and what comes next. Most people spend years — sometimes decades — cycling through these first three stages without ever knowing there is a...
June 21,2026 Hello, Inspired Alchemists — If you've been waiting for our next episode of the Inspired Action Podcast... the wait is over! Season 10 starts today with Episode 145. Woohooo!!! We've spent the better part of a year teaching, traveling, and doing our own Alchemy work out in the world. We didn't disappear — we were just... wandering. And somewhere along the way, things got clearer, deeper, and honestly, more exciting than ever. So we're back!!!! Episode 145 is out now, and it's a...